eink-dashboard
ESP8266 firmware that turns a 4.2" Z96 e-paper board into a battery-powered homelab dashboard: server status, Claude usage, weather, and a lunar calendar. Deep sleep, ~4 weeks per charge.
Details
- External ID
- 1366968166
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- token-dashboard
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.05976172175249808
- Tags
- 3d-printing, arduino, battery-powered, bearssl, captive-portal, claude, dashboard, deep-sleep, e-paper, eink, epaper-display, esp8266, gxepd2, home-assistant, homelab, iot, low-power, lunar-calendar, nas-monitoring, weather-station
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- utilities for Claude and Claude Code
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- battery-powered e-paper dashboard firmware for homelab monitoring
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Writing the ESP8266 C++/Arduino code to fetch APIs and render graphics onto an e-paper screen is straightforward, but physical hardware constraints, deep sleep power profiling, and hardware-specific debugging require hands-on electronics expertise. Vibe coding cannot solder, debug physical SPI pin connections, or physically tune low-power hardware circuits.
What it would actually take: Stack uses C++/Arduino or ESP-IDF with libraries like GxEPD2, consuming REST/JSON APIs over Wi-Fi, rendering 1-bit framebuffers, and entering deep sleep. The difficult parts include power-budget optimization (sub-mA sleep current, RTC waking, Wi-Fi fast-connect) and e-paper display waveform management to avoid ghosting without draining battery life. Requires an embedded developer with basic EE hardware lab access and multimeter/oscilloscope for sleep profiling.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #20 of 20 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
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